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Polearm meaning
A close-quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.
Example sentences (7)
However, other than that, this Polearm doesn't offer anything else.
This is the same animation used by characters like Xiangling, for instance, who is, coincidentally, also a 4-star Pyro polearm user.
While many players hoped that she could be a sword user, recent rumors claim that Arlecchino will be a polearm character.
Besides, historical accounts of the Three Kingdoms era had several specific records of Guan Yu thrusting his opponents down (probably with a spear-like polearm) in battles, instead of cutting them down with a curved-blade.
Ewart Oakeshott (1980), p.53 Glaive A glaive is a polearm consisting of a single-edged tapering blade similar in shape to a modern kitchen knife on the end of a pole.
Podao Chinese polearm, a 'long-handled sabre', also known as the zhan ma dao (horsecutter sabre) which has a lighter blade and a ring at the end in that it.
The sword was mostly considered as a secondary weapon until then, used in the battlefield only after the bow and polearm were no longer feasible.